NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+448%
2.413 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
320
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
159W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
R600
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
